On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 11:30:49PM -0500, seebs@plethora.net wrote:
> 
> I've seen the former, but the latter is the only sort practical for my
> notebook.   ;-)

Well, it should "just work", then.  We support wdc at pcmcia.  The
filesystem is totally normal MSDOS FAT.

> >I use only genuine SanDisk brand cards.  Almost everything else is
> >just a relabelled Hitachi card, and those are hideously buggy, particularly
> >in "drive" mode.  They're almost useful only as data-scramblers.  You can
> >get the SanDisk cards from buy.com at a pretty good price.
> 
> I had to make a personal phone call to Exodus's abuse desk to get buy.com
> to stop spamming a coworker; actually, then I had to send another complaint
> the week after that.  It took about two months to get them to stop.

Well, wherever you get them, get the SanDisk cards and *not* the
Hitachi ones.  Hitachi appears to test enough to make sure that their
cards work in a camera and that's about it.  Sometimes, they don't even
do that.  Basically, you write data to one block, and you can read it
back -- from another block somewhere totally different on the disk!  No
good.  They're crap.  Don't use them, you're asking for trouble.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
	"And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?"